Smoothing Riemannian metrics with Ricci curvature bounds

Manuscripta Mathematica

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-61

  Dai, Xianzhe ^a   Wei, Guofang ^b   Ye, Rugang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0030303825     PISSN: 00252611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02568293     Document Type: Article

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